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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the U.S. Dept of State was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1199-D1200 on Nov. 8, 2011.
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Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COUNTERFEIT ELECTRONIC PARTS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the Committee's investigation into counterfeit electronic parts in the Department of Defense supply chain, after receiving testimony from Richard J. Hillman, Managing Director, Forensic Audits and Investigative Service, and Timothy Persons, Chief Scientist, Center for Science, Technology, and Engineering, both of the Government Accountability Office; Lieutenant General Patrick J. O'Reilly, USA, Director, Missile Defense Agency, Department of Defense; Thomas Sharpe, SMT Corporation; Brian Toohey, Semiconductor Industry Association; Vivek Kamath, Raytheon Company; Ralph L. DeNino, L-3 Communications; and Charles Dabundo, Boeing Company.
NATURAL GAS MARKET DEVELOPMENTS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee concluded a hearing to examine market developments for United States natural gas, including the approval process and potential for liquefied natural gas exports, after receiving testimony from Christopher Smith, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and Natural Gas, Office of Fossil Energy, and Jeff C. Wright, Director, Office of Energy Projects, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, both of the Department of Energy; Kenneth B. Medlock III, Rice University James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and Andrew Slaughter, Shell Exploration and Production Company, both of Houston, Texas; and Jim Collins, City of Hamilton Underground Utilities Director, Hamilton, Ohio, on behalf of the American Public Gas Association.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded a hearing to examine Roberta S. Jacobson, of Maryland, to be Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Mari Carmen Aponte, of the District of Columbia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of El Salvador, Adam E. Namm, of New York, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Ecuador, and Elizabeth M. Cousens, of Washington, to be an Alternate Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during her tenure of service as Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, and to be Representative of the United States of America on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with the rank of Ambassador, all of the Department of State, after the nominees testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded a hearing to examine the nominations of Nancy Maria Ware, to be Director of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency for the District of Columbia, Michael A. Hughes, to be United States Marshal for the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Department of Justice, and Danya Ariel Dayson, Peter Arno Krauthamer, and John Francis McCabe, all to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, after the nominees, who were all introduced by Representative Norton, testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND AND THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION REAUTHORIZATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee concluded a hearing to examine No Child Left Behind, focusing on views on the Elementary and Secondary Education Reauthorization Act, after receiving testimony from Katherine Beh Neas, Easter Seals, Wade Henderson, Leadership Conference, Fredrick Hess, American Enterprise Institute, and John Schnur, New Leaders, all of Washington, D.C.; Amanda Danks, Baltimore City Public Schools, Baltimore, Maryland; Pam Geisselhardt, Adair County Schools, Columbia, Kentucky; Terry Grier, Houston Independent School District, Houston, Texas; Tom Luna, Idaho Superintendent of Public Instruction, Boise; Charles Seaton, Memphis City Schools, Memphis, Tennessee; and Elmer Thomas, Madison Central High School, Richmond, Kentucky.
OVERSIGHT: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded an oversight hearing to examine the Department of Justice, after receiving testimony from Eric H. Holder, Jr., Attorney General, Department of Justice.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee recessed subject to the call.
